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Fortunate cookie wins California woman $421K

The Associated Press

Posted:
03/23/2014 08:10:09 PM MDT

Updated:
03/23/2014 08:10:10 PM MDT

LOS GATOS, Calif.—A cookie didn't just tell a Northern California woman's fortune, it won her one.

The California Lottery said Sunday that Merces Goncalves (MEHR'-sess gohn-SAHL-vess) used the numbers found inside a fortune cookie to win over $421,000 in the Mega Millions game. The cookie still wasn't quite as fortunate as it could have been—She had Mega number 9 when the correct number 10 would have made the prize $240 million.

The retired Goncalves says she and husband Alvaro Goncalves plan to take a Hawaiian honeymoon they meant to take 52 years ago.

She bought the winning ticket at a liquor store in Los Gatos in Santa Clara County, where a $425 million Powerball ticket was sold last month a $324 million Mega Millions ticket was sold in December.

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